(I had to come to Swaziland to get into Beyonce's music. But she's so good ( Read more... )

Vegetarian Deconstruction

Okay. So I'm standing by the refrigerator in my vegetarian co-op and I open the door to see what I can eat and I see, what do I see, but some sausages. Apparently, I discover, we have tons of sausages. And chicken. Vast quantities of meat have stuffed the co-op to the gills -- all of it left over from a local art ( Read more... )

Putting up this entry scares me more than anything else I've ever written here. I don't know what people will think of me. I'm superficial. I'm vain. I'm self-centered. I'm seeking attention. I'm a brainless bimbo ( Read more... )

Housemate Mike wanted to get my perspective on this article on a rationalist web site titled, "Do fandoms need awfulness?" I wrote an irate response that I will now post here ( Read more... )

Insanely busy, going crazy, etc. When was the last time I posted? For that matter, where am I and what the hell is going on in my life? But as I was writing out strategies for Bookstore Y to market itself in Today's Ridiculous Bookstore-Unfriendly World (tm), I came upon this thought tangent. And what else are thought tangents for if not ( Read more... )

The other naif [that is, besides Henri Rousseau] whom Surrealism especially admired was not a painter but a builder who, in the obscurity of his own country garden, created what was perhaps the most elaborate, beautiful, and mysterious "unofficial" work of art made by any nineteenth-century artist. He was Ferdinand Cheval, a postman or facteur in ( Read more... )

Apparently "Last Christmas" has been covered over a hundred times. Maybe I'll cover it when I release my cover album that will probably never happen. But at Iggy's Karaoke in New York, many people totally said I should be a pro. And if you can't trust the bartenders and drunken regulars at a karaoke bar, who can you trust ( Read more... )

A while back I found myself in the middle of a conversation wondering how people who eat bugs, hunt bugs. I mean, they must hunt bugs in order to eat them, right? Half an hour of fruitless Internet research later, I determined that the answer might be in the book Man Eating Bugs: the Art and Science of Eating Insects by Peter Menzel and Faith D' ( Read more... )

I think I just accidentally convinced my boss to do a Bookstore Y Dance Party. We'll see how this plan develops ....

Sudden Poll! Please post song titles (and ideally, YouTube links) for Bookstore Y Dance Party songs. Bonus points if you post them within the next hour, because then I get to play them (quietly) for the store's clientele and also ( Read more... )

In one of my random forum glance-overs, I discovered some people expanding creatively on something Dustin and I wrote for Scroll of the Monk. (The Five Shade Association was mostly Dustin, in fairness.) I left a quick comment: "Sweet." To which a forumite named Eldagusto replied:

Gasp you met the right conditions to summon forth Shataina from ( Read more... )